Seagate has just announced the release of its 10TB Enterprise Drive, known as Helium. This can be used for cloud based data-centers, thanks to its simplistic architecture (3.5-inch CMR design). Given the increasing the needs of cloud data centers out there, this 10TB hard drive comes at a very good time from Seagate.

It has already received the mark of approval from major companies like Alibaba, Huawei etc. The Helium Enterprise Drive is meant for major companies who offer cloud based solutions to their customers. The companies claim that Seagate’s new solution offers increased performance and lower power consumption, makes it a win-win for them as well as the end-users (those who rely on cloud services).

“Cloud-based data center storage needs are expanding faster than many current infrastructures can sustain, rendering the capacity demands of users a herculean task for cloud managers,” said Mark Re, senior vice president and chief technology officer, Seagate. “Built on our years of research and development of sealed-drive technology, our new helium-based enterprise drive is designed precisely to help data-centric organizations worldwide solve the needs of their growing storage business.”

Naturally, this HDD will not be available on a wider-scale and Seagate will only offer it to “select customers worldwide”